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Braun was supposed to get a big push at the beginnng of 2016 and win the Andre battle royal that year but people got in Vince's ear and told him to hold off and give him time to grow. Turned out to be the absolute right move for whoever convinced him Also good point on NXT. There's a real good chance that audience turns on him and sets him back for maybe years. It was wise to keep him away in retrospect

With Flair and Jericho backstage this coming Monday Dave will most assuredly be getting Rumble/Mania plans pretty soon. So there's that

That's what I was thinking when they announced that. Sets up HHH v Braun. If they were doing hhh v .Angle they probably would have started the build already. I guess they could start Monday

Josh Duhamel was the other actor

I really liked that promo as well. Fantastic

yeah it was reported that Dusty was not a fan of his in FCW. And he was pushed as the third most important part of the Shield act until he turned. He had the "mechanic" label attached to him which is why everyone was shocked that he was the one that turned. sounds like it could have been battle in the HHH v Dunn/Vince war

Just announced that, as expected, Goldberg is first entry to hof this year

Just awful news. She's only 25. So sad.

WWE has signed Gabe Sapolsky

The talent involved seem legit psyched for this. I'm pretty pumped myself

PWI says Joe is hurt. He won the fan vote to be Bayley's partner in the MMC but can't compete. Terrible news obvs. as he's been on fire lately. And he was going to be programmed with Cena next. Elias will be Bayley's partner

And they start the build to Miz v Roman also. Props to them not forgetting how Miz was written off

I would have trouble calling Roman/Brock long term booking in the traditional sense. Obviously Roman was supposed to beat him three years ago at WM 31 so the last three years have been a bunch of detours and dead ends so to speak but we are finally getting there. This isn't Hogan/Savage 88/89.

Kurt Angle is replacing Enzo in the "Mixed match challenge". I guess Enzo must be real sick if he's going to miss this much time I guess he meant he's replacing with another wrestler not wrestling himself

I'm with Sean here. I know most aren't liking Owens and Sami on top on SD but I dig their act. Yeah it's probably too much comedy but Sami is just amazingly annoying in a good way. And any show with so many tag teams in the mix is going to get over big with me. And I'm a sucker for tournaments

I guess they realized they had two "walk out" storylines going on at the same time because Nattie was back tonight like nothing happened at the ppv last week

God damn Rusev is over! Push him!

At the beginning it was obviously rough as they wanted him as a babyface but they've been pretty damn good with him since they realized he had to eventually be heel. I really hope this leads to Jordan v Angle at mania instead of Angle v HHH. I think we eventually get that match but Mania would be ideal

I really hope they are building to a big Roman v Joe singles PPV match. It certainly seems that way. I guess Kane at the moment is the top heel on Raw since he's in the title match but feels like Joe is going to take over in that role soon enough Really liking the Jordan stuff as well

it's becoming a reality

Jason Jordan will be replacing Ambrose on the house shows teaming with Rollins according to pro wrestling sheet the female wrestlers didn't know about the Rumble announcement till Steph made it on the air. They wanted the reactions to be genuine

There *has* to be something going on backstage with Corbin. Like I mentioned a few days ago i've never seen a guy go back and forth from pushed-buried-pushed-buried so much. I'm not even saying it's political but clearly there are people with power backstage who have differing opinions of him. Of course he wasn't even on TV last night 2 days after losing his title. Next he'll probably be AJ's new contender. That's how it always goes with him

I remember this match getting a ton of praise online at the time and specifically Jericho's performance in getting so much out of Kane . I swear I remember Loss really loving this match at the time. Over 15 years ago!

Yeah they really delivered a placeholder show tonight. Nothing new was really teased.

Don't mean to pile on but a few weeks ago Dave says there are no plans for a Women's rumble match so of course they announce one tonight. 2017 has been a terrible year for him reporting wise